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00:01:30 1 Historical background
00:04:35 2 Goethe's theory
00:08:04 2.1 Light and darkness
00:09:37 2.2 Experiments with turbid media
00:11:07 2.3 Boundary conditions
00:11:54 2.4 Light and dark spectra
00:13:19 3 Goethe's colour wheel
00:14:41 3.1 Complementary colours and colours psychology
00:15:42 3.1.1 Notes on translation
00:16:59 4 Newton and Goethe
00:19:20 4.1 Table of differences
00:19:54 5 History and influence
00:21:01 5.1 Influence on the arts
00:22:06 5.2 Influence on Latin American flags
00:22:44 5.3 Influence on philosophers
00:24:22 5.4 Reception by scientists
00:27:59 5.5 Current status
00:30:56 6 Quotations
00:31:06 6.1 On the catalytic moment
00:31:26 7 See also
00:31:36 8 Notes and references
00:35:19 9 Bibliography
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Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans. It was published in German in 1810 and in English in 1840. The book contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration.
The work originated in Goethe's occupation with painting and mainly exerted an influence on the arts (Philipp Otto Runge, J. M. W. Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, Wassily Kandinsky). The book is a successor to two short essays entitled "Contributions to Optics".
Although Goethe's work was rejected by physicists, a number of philosophers and physicists have concerned themselves with it, including Thomas Johann Seebeck, Arthur Schopenhauer (see: On Vision and Colors), Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Steiner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, and Mitchell Feigenbaum.
Goethe's book provides a catalogue of how colour is perceived in a wide variety of circumstances, and considers Isaac Newton's observations to be special cases. Unlike Newton, Goethe's concern was not so much with the analytic treatment of colour, as with the qualities of how phenomena are perceived. Philosophers have come to understand the distinction between the optical spectrum, as observed by Newton, and the phenomenon of human colour perception as presented by Goethe—a subject analyzed at length by Wittgenstein in his comments on Goethe's theory in Remarks on Colour.
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